Flying fish with freshwater nests and cases Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Birthplace of John Howard

Birthplace of John Howard

The plate was printed with an English extract of the letter in Philosophical Collections ed

The Goons of BBC fame at Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment

with the north-eastern end of the church of Austin Friars just visible

Flying fish with freshwater nests and cases Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Birthplace of John HowardZoological studies of three types of marine and freshwater specimens. Figure 1 a flying fish 'from the Royal Society'. Figure 2 nest of the 'Tickleback' eg stickleback, probably the freshwater fish Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus, the three spined stickleback. Figure 3 four specimens of caddisfly cases. Plate 8 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). Inscribed 'Plate VIII. T. Cole sculp.'